(ThyBlackMan.com) Hold the presses! Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, those bad “Black militant” leaders who all these years have exercised a Svengali-like influence over the masses have lost their clout. So says Black conservative pundit John McWhorter in the July 17 The New Republic magazine. Writing at his oiliest, McWhorter begins his ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) It has been a long and rocky ride down the economic slope for the Motor City, a city I know well. Procter & Gamble hired me out of the University of Wisconsin after I graduated in 1970.  Knowing I was about to be drafted, they placed me in Toledo, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Over the past few weeks, the D.C. City Council has been in the news quite a bit, though but for all the wrong reasons.  They recently passed a law that would prevent thousands, yes you heard me right, thousands of jobs from being created within their city. Now mind ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There are genuine and sincere men and women of integrity who believe Mr. Obama’s policies have not been affected in lifting blacks out of their dismal economic condition brought on by the 2008 downturn. The facts are on the side of critics in that blacks have not fared well ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) African American men have great untapped potential, given by God our creator. There is a gold mine of gifts, genius, talents, abilities and resources among black men. These resources have gone untapped for two reasons: External forces such as racism, discrimination, poor role models or no role models including ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Too many times in my walk I’ve observed many people seek to fill the void that they carry inside of them by seeking the validation of others who are the wrong people to seek fulfillment from. It’s almost like they are on fire from within in an unseen manner ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The only way to change the radio format is to change ourselves. One day at a time. It is a far gone conclusion, that the radio format today is particularly garbage from top to bottom. For hip hop, guns, sex and drugs govern the airwaves. For R&B it’s more ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Overruling myself, I am now doing what I said I would not; I am writing a column in which I mention two items: Skittles and Iced Tea. I cringed every time I heard those words during the pursuit of justice for Trayvon Martin and his family, and throughout the ...